Re: [PATCH] USB: ehci: use packed,aligned(4) instead of removingthe packed attribute

[Alexander Holler]

Am 20.06.2011 20:39, schrieb Alan Stern:
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2011, Alexander Holler wrote:
>
> > I see it that way: packed is needed to be sure that at least for struct
> > ehci_regs there are no padding bytes inbetween the members.
>
> But is it _really_ needed?
>
> > It might
> > work without, but that depends on the compiler (-version, architecture,
> > whatever).
>
> Have there _ever_ been _any_ combinations of compiler, version,
> architecture, whatever, that had unwanted padding bytes in this
> structure?

I don't know. But if there would be no doubts, this discussion would not 
happen and I assume there never would have been an attribute packed there.

Regards,

Alexander
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